The Okie Legacy: NW Okie's Journey Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie 1916, Breaking the New York Gangs 1934, M'Laughlin Confessed To Handling $53,000 Of The E. G. Brewer Ransom Money 1928, Union Man Is Victim of Gangster in Oklahoma 1957, Gangster Nesbit Is Slain In Fort Worth 1912, Rush Is On For Oil Leases

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Volume 18 , Issue 16

2016

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Last Friday before the rain began we went to a garage sale and spotted this blooming aloe vera plant in a Houston, Texas neighborhood. I have never seen an aloe vera bloom before. The gentlemen who had it growing in his yard told us it was an aloe vera plant.

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

NW Okie still has me assigned to Oklahoma Outlaws, so I bring you this excerpt of "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws." [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


1916, Breaking the New York Gangs

Looking back to November, 1916, we found this news article written by Frederic J. Haskin, for the Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, Ottumwa, Iowa, dated 17 November 1916, Friday, page 3: "Breaking the New York Gangs" (The gunman and His Works).

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1934, M'Laughlin Confessed To Handling $53,000 Of The E. G. Brewer Ransom Money

In 1934 a search was being made for three Oklahoma Gamgsters allegedly allied with Dillinger as ones who engineered the kidnapping of Bremer. M'Laughlin confessed to handling $53,000 of the E. G. Bremer ransom money. That announcement, regarding the reputed Chicago gambler, was made by the justice department officials back on 30 April 1934, page 1, of The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, in Chillicothe, Missouri.

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1928, Union Man Is Victim of Gangster in Oklahoma

The Pacific Transcript, Pacific, Missouri, dated 2 November 1928, Friday, reported on page 1: "Union Man Is Vcitim of Gangster In Oklahoma." Attorney John Henry Vossbrink, son of Mr. and Mrs. henry C. Vossbrink of this city, was the victim of an Oklahoma gangster recently and had been in a hospital in Oklahoma City for the past few weeks recovering from injuries received.

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1957, Gangster Nesbit Is Slain In Fort Worth

Have you ever heard the story of explosives expert jack Nesbit, the last of the Fort Worth-Dallas gangster fraternity, who died 21 may 1957, Tuesday night under the gun of a strawberry blonde who did not want to be his girlfriend any longer?

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1912, Rush Is On For Oil Leases

It was in the Muskogee Times Democrat, Muskogee, Oklahoma, dated 23 July 1912, Tuesday, page 1, we found this headline: "Rush Is On For Oil Leases."

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